The corpus record — Latin

eructo

eructo · v. a

To belch

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Adversus Praxean 5 · 3.38/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-ructo — Lewis & Short

ē-ructo, āre, v. a.

I To belch or vomit forth, to throw up (rare but class.).

A Prop.: unde tu nos turpissime eructando ejecisti, Cic. Pis. 6, 13: saniem eructans, Verg. A. 3, 632; cf. Col. 8, 8, 10.—

B Trop.: caedem sermonibus suis, i. e. to talk of murder when drunk, Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10.—

II Ingen., to cast forth, emit, exhale: Tartarus horriferos eructans faucibus aestus, Lucr. 3, 1012: aquam, Varr. R. R. 3, 14, 2: odorem, id. ib. 1, 4, 4: noxium virus, Col. 1, 5, 6: harenam, Verg. A. 6, 297: flammas, vaporem, fumum, Just. 4, 1, 4.—

B Esp., to utter (eccl. Lat.): abscondita, Vulg. Matt. 13, 35; id. Psa. 44, 2; August. Civ. D. 18, 32; cf. Lact. 4, 8, 14.

Where it came from

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